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• Title:Family psychology : theory, research, and practice / John W. Thoburn and Thomas L. Sexton.
  
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• Author/Creator:Thoburn, John W., author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Sexton, Thomas L., 1953- author.
  
• Published/Created:Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2016]
  

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  • Location:BMB LIBRARY (VGH) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM430.5.F2 T58 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM430.5.F2 T58 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Family counseling.
  Family psychotherapy.
  Families--Psychological aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects: Family Therapy.
  
• Description:xvii, 260 pages ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:"This significant book explains why family psychology--an entirely different field from family therapy--provides a cutting-edge description of human behavior in context and as such represents the wave of the future in psychology. Supplies a comprehensive treatise on the value of family psychology to the field of psychology as a whole Provides a historical overview of family psychology and makes the important differentiation between family psychology and marriage and family therapy Examines the relationship between research and practice, cure and care, and the science and art of family psychology Documents how family psychology strives to view persons in context of their situation and the relationships within the family"-- Provided by publisher.
  "Looking through the Systemic Lens "I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then" (Carroll, 2009). In the 1950s a systemic psychology developed from general system theory (von Bertalanffy, 1951), a new and revolutionary epistemology that directly competed with the Platonic and Aristotelian paradigms that had defined much of Western thought for centuries. Systems psychology developed as a reaction to the dominance of the Aristotelian based medical model of psychology represented by psychoanalysis, cognitive behavioral and humanistic psychologies. The medical model was characterized as individualistic (a focus on intrapsychic phenomena), dualistic (mind body split), reductionistic (reducing phenomena down to discrete categories) and radically objective (accepting only objective data as scientifically valid). The systemic model on the other hand, was characterized as relational (pathology and health are relationship oriented), holistic (the whole is greater than the sum of its parts), ecological (there is a reciprocal relationship between the biopsychosocial elements of being human) and subjective (the ideographic must be considered alongside the nomothetic)"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781440830723 hardcover
  144083072X hardcover
  9781440830761 paperback
  1440830762 paperback
  9781440830730 electronic book
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Section I Family Psychology: Theory, Research, and Practice
  ch. 1 What Is Family Psychology?
  Defining Family Psychology
  "Praxis" of Family Psychology
  Becoming a Family Psychologist
  Conclusions: What Is Next?
  ch. 2 Systemic Epistemology of Family Psychology
  Revolution and Evolution: From the Individual to the System
  Systems Epistemology: The Core of Family Psychology
  Structures and Processes of Relational Systems
  Every System Is More Than the Sum of the Parts
  Importance of Context: The Place of Culture and Diversity in Systemic Thinking
  Unifying Threads of Family Psychology
  Conclusions: What Is Next?
  ch. 3 Through the Systemic Lens: Families, Problems, and Change
  Role of Theories
  Pioneering Theories of Family Psychology
  Relational Family Systems: Systemic Perspectives on Families' Relational Systems
  Systemic View of Clinical Problems
  Conclusions: What Is Next?
  ch. 4 Scientific Foundations of Family Psychology
  Science and the Scientific Method
  Domains of Family Psychology Research
  Types of Family Psychology Research
  What Is Good Family Psychology Research?
  What Do We Know about What We Do?
  Support for the Epistemological Perspective
  Do Family Psychology Clinical Interventions Work?
  Being a Scientist-Practitioner-Based Family Psychologist
  Research-Practice Dialectic
  Conclusions: What Is Next?
  Section II Clinical Practice of Family Psychology
  ch. 5 Mapping the Territory of Clinical Practice
  Mapping the Territory of Therapeutic Change in Family Psychology
  Clinical Interventions in Family Psychology
  Process of Change
  Conclusions and What Is Next?
  ch. 6 Case Planning and Clinical Assessment
  Role of Clinical Assessment and Clinical Case Planning
  What This All Means and What Is Next?
  ch. 7 Family-Focused Clinical Intervention Models
  Theoretically Based Models
  Evidence-Based Clinical Intervention Models
  Conclusions: What Is Next?
  ch. 8 Couple-Focused Clinical Intervention Models
  Theoretically Based Models
  Evidence-Based Approaches
  Thoughts, Comments, and What's Next?
  Section III Professional Context of Family Psychology
  ch. 9 Specialty Areas of Family Psychology
  Sex Therapy
  International Family Psychology
  Collaborative Health Care
  Family Forensic Psychology
  Conclusions: What Is Next?
  ch. 10 Training, Supervision, and Ethics in Family Psychology
  Training in Family Psychology
  Supervision in Family Psychology
  Ethics in Family Psychology
  Conclusions and Reflections.